# Timing with AMD Advantage **URL:** \ **Category:** Hardware\ **Tags:** linux\ **Created:** [September 17, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/timing-with-amd-advantage/5493 "2024-09-17T16:26:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![mariokleiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mariokleiner](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/u/mariokleiner)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/timing-with-amd-advantage/5493/2 "2024-09-18T17:15:43Z")
That laptop is a AMD dual-gpu laptop with very similar hardware to what was just handled in this thread: > [@Unable to display image on external monitor AMD laptop](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/unable-to-display-image-on-external-monitor-amd-laptop/5486/5): > > Thanks so much for your help and pointing me to this article! I have kept the 3rd party drivers as you noted that they are unlikely to be worse. I did add PsychTweak(‘GetSecsClock’, 1); to the beginning of my script and now I am getting the following warning that the flip command seems to be missing: INFO: PTB’s Screen(‘Flip’, 10) command seems to have missed the requested stimulus presentation deadline INFO: a total of 19 times out of a total of 209 flips during this session. INFO: This nu… As stated on our website, I do generally not recommend dual-gpu laptops of any make if avoidable, unless there is a good reason, but whereas they are generally or often unusable on MS-Windows, they can be made to work fine on Linux with some manual configuration and setup work, as demonstrated in the above linked thread. Still even on Linux a little bit more hassle than simply getting a single-gpu machine. In general AMD gpu’s are not expected to have much of an advantage over NVidia on MS-Windows (whereas Intel gpu’s are entirely unusable on Windows timing-wise!). But on Linux they can have substantial advantages for visual timing, control, color precision, HDR, VRR, high quality open-source drivers. Also, I mostly only test on AMD, very rarely on NVidia. --- _[View the full topic](https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/timing-with-amd-advantage/5493)._